The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-04
FLORIDA.

at Lake City. PT1ceS range ABOUT %uc.
pound.
Key West begins a new era in educa-
tional matters by the opening of St Joseph 5
College.
Columbia county exported of its own pro-
auctions for the seasons Of 1885 over
500, 900.
/ +. f. Gonzales De Soto cigar factory, at
| Lake CITY, received orders week before last
TO the amount of $1,000 cigars and last week
800.
The store at Denver has again passed into
the hands of w c. Braddock the original
owner and will in future be managed by
Murray Hall, of Oakland.
Business has opened very dull this fall at
Lake City. Merchants and farmers COM
plain at the low price of cotton.
A petition requesting the appointment of
! w. {. Braddock as postmaster OF Crescent
| City is being circulated, and has already
been signed by quite number.
| Charles p Reid editor of the A rgitS and
manager of the Sanford Publishing Com
pany, has taken position on the NelCS
Herald at Jacksonville as proof-reader.
At Sanford at II o'clock Friday night
the three saloons that escaped the fire closed
their doors in consequence of the local
option law, which law went into effect
| Saturday morning.
| II 1dNdfeS is elected county seat Oh Lake
county, she will provide for Lake the finest
court house in South Florida. The plans
are all prepared and work will begin on it
within sixty days after that place is chosen
The two mounted brass howitzers have
| been placed in the Seminary grounds at
| Gainesville, to take the place of the larger
| guns The cadets are not especially pleased
with their appearance, as they are not of
| the latest patterns.
| AT Tallahassee the Railroad Commission
has about completed the work of making
! the clasSifications, the tariff for freight and
passengers, and other regulations in connec-
ton Herewith, and the publication will be
made at an early day.
There are seventy-six public schools in
| Orange county, eight of the number being
colored schools. All schools will be run six
months. The average attendance is not yet
known and cannot be ascertained until the
meeting of the County Board on Monday,
Oct. 10.
James Bowen, near Davenport, came to
| Polk county four years ago with only So and
a large family. He now has a well-improved
and prosperous home. Within the four
years of his residence he has killed so deer
| and four bears, one of which weighed 600
| pounds. He has also killed large number
| of turkeys-twenty five within the last three
weeks. Mr.. Bowen has realized 81 800 from
last four years.
At Gainesville Saturday Ferd Bayer
made tender of the money to the Collector
of Revenue and asked for a license, which
was refused A writ of mandamus has
| been, or is being prepared, which will bring
the matter into court What will be set
| forth in the writ is not stated, but it will
probably not stop until the decision of the
| Supreme Court is reached. That may take
| hS Whathar n
saloon-keepers in the county will take the
same steps remains to be seen.
A joint stock company of New Workers
has been formed with capital of $l00,00
| to purchase and cultivate tobacco in Gads-
den county for another year. An option
| for the purchase of 900 acres of land lying
principally near the railroad, with forfeitS
| deposited in some instances, has been eff
| fected, subject to confirmation within tif
teen to sixty days by the parties supposed
to be connected with this joint stock com
| pany The lands under the contract have
been sold at reasonable, If not at low prices.
Good articles of tobacco are selling from
25c to Sic. per pound Several more to-
bacco men are expected there this week
Nothing else is talked about there. Every
body is delighted at the prospects, The
sanguine are shouting that the boom has
| come at last
A warrant was sworn out injustice De
Lono's court, at Key West Wednesday, by
| X. B. Hamel, representative there of tine
| Havana La Luchd, for the arrest of Senior
Estrada, editor of the daily La Propaganda,
for assault and battery. The cause of the
| trouble is said to have been a statement
made by Hamel that Estrada had informed
him that 1.-THE charge of the Spanish gov
eminent, upon which Poublo, the
American citizen, was recently con-
victed, was murder, and not in the
least political" This statement, which is
of course untrue, Mr.. Estrada emphatically
denies having made, and he called
upon Mr.. Hamel, at Mr.. Gato's factory
demanding retraction as to the authority
which Hamel is said to have quoted when
| making the aforementioned statement.
Hamel insisting that Estrada really had
told him so, the latter called him liar and
then slapped his face; for which assault
Hamel afterward swore the warrant for ar
rest. The case was compromised.
AT St. Augustine fifteen years ago an or
dinance declaring Central avenue open from
Cedar street to King street. For fifteen
years they have been endeavoring to get
this extension put through but in vain
The line OF the street passes through the
land of Mrs. Foster, a widow who has
steadily opposed its being open Its opening
being deemed public necessity, Alderman
Beasley and Erchbaum were determined to
have it opened before the close of their term
of Office. Meantime, Mrs. Foster got out an in
junction which she intended to serve when
ever an attempt was made to carry out the
provisions of the ordinance relating to it.
Knowing that no injunction papers could
be served on Sunday a force of men was
employed that day, beginning at daybreak,
ana in spite of the protests of the angry
! property owner they continued work until
the street was opened and fenced on both
sides. Central avenue will now be con
tinued through the lands of the st. Angus
tine Improvement Company, and will be
over mile in length. The company pro-
poses to shell the road, thus making a fine
driveway of it.
President W. d. Chipley of Florida Chau-
tauqua, met DR.. Gillett, Superintendent of
Instruction, at the latter's office in Cincin-
natl, Thursday, together with several man
ayers of the association. The day for open
ing the fourth annual session at DeFuniak
Springs was finally fixed on Feb. IL next.
President Chipley reports that while the
usual literary and scientific features will be
as strong as heretofore, the musical and art
departments will surpass all former efforts
Among the popular attractions will be fire
works every night, instead of twice week.
as at former meetings. A John Bunyan
memorial exercises will be held, commem-
Grating the 200th anniversary of Bunyan's